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Thank you Mr Tibbets I am a bit more optimistic now with your information. You spent a good amount of time on that post I appreciate it. We really need that F.A.Q hosted and maintained somewhere so the knowledgeable people can move on to other things while keeping the ignorant people in the loop (li...

ohiovr wrote:Polywell FAQ part I

Well that's the beginning of a FAQ at least... I'm sure there are a lot more questions than that.

Polywell FAQ part I What is a maGrid? The maGrid is short for magnetic grid. It is the circular electromagnets that contain the electrons and ions in the potential well. All polywell magrids so far have had 6 electromagnets. Future designs may employ more than 6 (how many? Why is more better?) Why ...

Art Carlson wrote:50 cm of shielding

How is the field going to penetrate half a meter of shielding? Unobtainium with vacuum permeability? Yikes!

and thanks all for trying to explain this to me for the nth time.

so the electrons are shot in and the electromagnets confine them. then ions are shot in and they are accelerated to the center due to their attraction to the electrons. Why don't they slow down and neutralize? Excess electrons?

.... such as how does the electromagnets actually accelerate the ions? And why they don't thermalize into a Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution.

Well I guess that settles it then. Unless this were to be run in pulsed operation superconducting magnets are essential. We can use the Stefan-Boltzmann law to find radiation heat transfer between surfaces in a vacuum. The electromagnets would have to be cooled by liquid helium, and around that a de...

Magnetic field strength is evidently a lot more important than the radius. I'm not an expert on electromagnets but this is what I've gleaned from wiki: Ferromagnetic core electromagnets can be thousands of times more powerful than electromagnets with just air cores. An iron core magnet therefore req...

Ok I've made an xls spread sheet attempting to make sense of this.

http://ohiovr.com/science/polywell/scaling_law.xls

Hmm not a good clear picture of things in that link. We are far far from a consensus. Quit calling this whatever this is a scaling Law. It isn't even a scaling principle. No one can agree on Bussards claim. This is a dimensionless void meaningless and estranged from all reality.

Is there a reference design to refer to in order to get figures from this equation? It is incomplete as is. P_g = some Testlas * some radius. What is a Telsta radius? What is it worth? Magnetic field strength is a force. Not a power. Could that be a multiplier we could use on a base coefficient? Wou...

Evidently EVERYONE knows the math for this and are mocking me personally for not figuring it out myself or NOBODY understands the math for this and are just making things up as they feel like it.

Where is George Westinghouse when we need him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse

Without him we would have never heard of Testla.

I had an open mind. Now excuse me while I scoop it off the floor.